One item you should amend to the list is a travel fund, if the dev is into it, to get him to go to (and speak at) conferences. Get noticed and many of those other pieces (like media attention and legit parties willing to audit/test the code) fall into place.
This is a very very good point. Look at all the hype ZeroCoin has got -- basically all they have ever done is give talks (which is the problem with the coin

). I think a very significant portion of this money should be spent going to crypto and bitcoin conferences and presenting the technicals of DarkCoin. One talk will lead to many blog posts and I'm sure even mainstream press. If Evan wants to do that it is ideal; if not we really need to find someone who can.
Along those lines, we really need a detailed whitepaper as well.